Simple DOS Menu System -  

I remember making little batch file menus like this for all of my games when I was a kid! I think some people might claim that it's technically cheating but hey, it makes life a bit easier... 😉

Thanks for this video ! Another way (a one I find a bit more clean, but it's only my PoV) could be to use the command CHOICE (for MSDOS 6 and newer). But it's always simpler to judge afterward, isn't it :)

Hi - very similar to what i used at work and home before work purchased "Power Menu by brown bag software" the option were similar but 1. word processor 2. spreadsheet 3. utilities 4. games ( but 4 was not printed on the screen but the batch file 4.bat existed) so if you pressed 1 it displayed a new sub menu showing options 10-20 but it really was 10 - Lotus 123 11. Multiplan 12. Unicalc Oh at the end of each batch file i made sure it went back to the c-drive root and displayed a line of text "type menu to see choices" The last option was called shutdown - it just ran the park hard drive utility which when finished display the message safe to turn of or similar Later it was slightly modified when ansy.sys was added and the typical light blue background and dark blue border was used to pretty it up There is a small utility called batchman ( a play on batman ) which gave you the ability to play with colours and more gwbasic style command for batch files and i think make them into executables Regards George

Always use this to launch games and programs, but with gotos and ifs so I don't need to populate any directory with millions of bat files. Never tough it had a name, just started doing it that way (and still doing it while using DOS)

I make some simple ascii art stories for fun in my class at high school in the 90s with bat files, old times...

Nice

I wrote a batch file menu using choice.exe for a compilation CD I burned a few years ago

@echo off REM Set the cursor position on screen. REM Need three parameter(%1 %2 %3) attached. REM Usage: Cursor.bat page(0-7) column(0-0x4f) row(0-0x18) REM Need hexadecimal values for column and row position. REM (Page 0 default) echo a cs:100>tmp.deb echo mov bh,%1>>tmp.deb echo mov dh,%2>>tmp.deb echo mov dl,%3>>tmp.deb echo mov ah,2>>tmp.deb echo int 10>>tmp.deb echo ret>>tmp.deb echo.>>tmp.deb echo n cursor.com>>tmp.deb echo rcx>>tmp.deb echo b>>tmp.deb echo wcs:100>>tmp.deb echo q>>tmp.deb debugnul del tmp.deb Cursor.com del Cursor.com Running with a little help from Debug from the Freedos Operating System: (provide 32 bit register/instructions) Download and extract debug into the mounted folder of DOSBOX. www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/debug.html Debug manual: www.armory.com/~rstevew/Public/Tutor/Debug/debug-manual.html

MS DOS 6.0 had the choice.exe thats i was used in the 90s So u need only one Bat looks like @CHOICE /C:123 IF ERRORLEVEL 3 GOTO three IF ERRORLEVEL 2 GOTO two IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO one GOTO end :one ECHO You have pressed "1"! GOTO end :two ECHO You have pressed "2"! GOTO end :three ECHO You have pressed "3"! :end

In the 90s I wrote a simple system like this. I wrote a program in C that was used to display a menu using a configuration file. It would write out the users's selection to a batch file that would be run. I even released it on SimTel for use. I uploaded the source of it to Github a few years ago: github.com/travisbhartwell/tbmenu

I always used config.sys menus for things like this

When I was in a class at school we had a menu like this. I remember the teacher was horrified because I just typed in the number of the program I wanted to at the prompt without running the menu, or in this case rebooting the machine!

Happy holidays! I added this to a "Programming #DOScember" playlist - please let me know if you see others that I missed! ru-vid.com/group/PL2O6RH1Isy65nD8P400NpobCHsWB7Do7T

I am impressed by the simplicity and efficacy of this approach while my sense of computing rightness is downright appalled (no judgement intended). Quite entertaining, sir!

Nostalgia ! I remember writing these for work and for my personal use. I later ported many of them to HP-UX to make the transition easier for many of our users.